Official Name: | St. Peter | ||||||||
Settlement Type: | City | ||||||||
Motto: | "Where History & Progress Meet" | ||||||||
Mapsize: | 250px | ||||||||
Pushpin Map: | Minnesota#USA | ||||||||
Subdivision Type: | Country | ||||||||
Subdivision Name: | United States | ||||||||
Subdivision Type1: | State | ||||||||
Subdivision Name1: | Minnesota | ||||||||
Subdivision Type2: | County | ||||||||
Subdivision Name2: | Nicollet | ||||||||
Government Type: | Mayor – Council | ||||||||
Leader Title: | Mayor | ||||||||
Leader Name: | Shanon Nowell | ||||||||
Established Title: | Founded | ||||||||
Established Date: | 1853 | ||||||||
Established Title2: | Incorporated | ||||||||
Established Date2: | 1873 | ||||||||
Unit Pref: | Imperial | ||||||||
Area Footnotes: | [1] | ||||||||
Area Total Km2: | 16.16 | ||||||||
Area Land Km2: | 15.70 | ||||||||
Area Water Km2: | 0.45 | ||||||||
Area Total Sq Mi: | 6.24 | ||||||||
Area Land Sq Mi: | 6.06 | ||||||||
Area Water Sq Mi: | 0.17 | ||||||||
Population As Of: | 2020 | ||||||||
Population Est: | 12156 | ||||||||
Pop Est As Of: | 2022 | ||||||||
Population Total: | 12066 | ||||||||
Population Metro: | 104072 (US: 350th) | ||||||||
Population Density Km2: | 768.30 | ||||||||
Population Density Sq Mi: | 1989.78 | ||||||||
Timezone: | Central | ||||||||
Utc Offset: | −6 | ||||||||
Timezone Dst: | CDT | ||||||||
Utc Offset Dst: | −5 | ||||||||
Elevation Ft: | 850 | ||||||||
Postal Code Type: | ZIP Code | ||||||||
Postal Code: | 56082 | ||||||||
Area Code: | 507 | ||||||||
Blank Name: | FIPS code | ||||||||
Blank Info: | 27-58036 | ||||||||
Blank1 Name: | GNIS feature ID | ||||||||
Blank1 Info: | 2396517 | ||||||||
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St. Peter is a city and the county seat of Nicollet County, Minnesota United States. It is 10 miles north of the Mankato – North Mankato metropolitan area. The population was 12,066 at the 2020 census.[2] [3] It is home to Gustavus Adolphus College.
U.S. Highway 169 and Minnesota State Highways 22 and 99 are three of the city's main routes.
St. Peter's sister city is Petatlán, Guerrero, Mexico.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of, of which is land and is water.[4]
As of the census of 2010, there were 11,196 people, 3,491 households, and 2,150 families residing in the city. The population density was . There were 3,697 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 90.1% White, 3.3% African American, 0.6% Native American, 1.6% Asian, 2.3% from other races, and 2.0% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 6.4% of the population.
There were 3,491 households, of which 32.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 46.2% were married couples living together, 11.8% had a female householder with no husband present, 3.6% had a male householder with no wife present, and 38.4% were non-families. 29.9% of all households were made up of individuals, and 12.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.44 and the average family size was 2.99.
The median age in the city was 27.5 years. 19.4% of residents were under the age of 18; 27.1% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 22% were from 25 to 44; 19.9% were from 45 to 64; and 11.6% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 49.5% male and 50.5% female.
As of the census of 2000, there were 9,747 people, 2,978 households, and 1,843 families residing in the city. The population density was 1797.3sp=usNaNsp=us. There were 3,129 housing units at an average density of 577sp=usNaNsp=us. The racial makeup of the city was 94.17% White, 1.57% African American, 0.43% Native American, 1.53% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 1.25% from other races, and 1.02% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3.04% of the population.
There were 2,978 households, out of which 32.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 48.7% were married couples living together, 9.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 38.1% were non-families. 28.7% of all households were made up of individuals, and 12.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.46 and the average family size was 2.99.
In the city, the population was spread out, with 19.8% under the age of 18, 30.6% from 18 to 24, 21.3% from 25 to 44, 16.5% from 45 to 64, and 11.8% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 25 years. For every 100 females, there were 96.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 93.2 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $40,344, and the median income for a family was $51,157. Males had a median income of $33,618 versus $25,789 for females. The per capita income for the city was $16,634. About 4.2% of families and 11.8% of the population were below the poverty line, including 7.3% of those under age 18 and 10.9% of those age 65 or over.
St. Peter was founded in 1853 by Captain William Bigelow Dodd, who claimed north of what is now Broadway Avenue. He named the new settlement Rock Bend because of the rock formation at the bend of the Minnesota River. Daniel L. Turpin platted and surveyed the town site in 1854. In 1855, a group of St. Paul businessmen interested in promoting the town formed the Saint Peter Company, and the town was renamed St. Peter. The president of the company was Willis A. Gorman, Territorial Governor of Minnesota. Many of St. Peter's streets were named after streets in New York City, including Park Row, Chatham, Broadway, Nassau, and Union. Dodd was originally from Bloomfield, New Jersey. His second wife, Harriett Newell Jones, a native of Cabot, Vermont, was living in New York at the time of their marriage at the Church of the Holy Communion in New York City, which helped fund the church in St. Peter that shares its name.
The Two Fingers band of Sioux from St Peter's made news in 1855.[5] In 1857, an attempt was made to move the Territory of Minnesota's capital from St. Paul to St. Peter. Gorman owned the land on which the bill's sponsors wanted to build the new capitol building, and at one point had been heard saying, "If the capitol remains in Saint Paul, the territory is worth millions, and I have nothing." At the time, St. Peter, in the territory's central region, was seen as more accessible to far-flung territorial legislators than St. Paul, which was in the extreme east of the territory, on the east bank of the Mississippi River. A bill passed both houses of the Territorial Legislature and was awaiting Gorman's signature. The chairman of the Territorial Council's Enrolled Bills Committee, Joseph J. Rolette of Pembina, took the bill and hid in a St. Paul hotel, drinking and playing cards with some friends as the city police looked fruitlessly for him, until the end of the legislative session, too late for the bill to be signed. Rolette came into the chamber just as the session ended. Today, St. Paul is the state's second-largest city (after neighboring Minneapolis), while St. Peter is a relatively small rural town.
In 1851 the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux was signed between the Sioux (Dakota) and the U.S. Government one mile (1.6 km) north of St. Peter. The Nicollet County Historical Society-Treaty Site History Center is near the site of the signing. But the treaty's promises were not kept. The Dakota became angered and the Dakota War of 1862 began in Cottonwood County. In August 1862 the Dakota attacked the German settlement of New Ulm. A company of volunteers from St. Peter, headed by Dodd, St. Peter's founder, went to New Ulm's defense. Dodd was killed on August 23, 1862, and briefly buried in New Ulm. On November 11, 1862, Dodd was buried with high military honors in St. Peter on the grounds of the Church of the Holy Communion, Episcopal, on land he donated to the church. Dodd, his wife Harriet and two children are buried behind the present stone church built in 1869–70 at 118 North Minnesota Avenue.
In 1866, the legislature established the first "Minnesota Asylum for the Insane" in St. Peter. It was later known as the St. Peter State Hospital, and is now called the St. Peter Regional Treatment Center.
On July 1, 1892, the Sontag Brothers, John Sontag and George Contant, and their partner, Chris Evans, tried to rob a train between St. Peter and Kasota along the Minnesota River. The bandits acquired nothing of value, but their activities came under the review of Pinkerton detectives, and both were apprehended in June 1893 in what is called the Battle of Stone Corral in California.[6]
St. Peter is known as the home of five governors:
The best-known of these, Johnson, was born in St. Peter to Swedish-born parents on July 28, 1861. Because of family circumstances, he offered to help his mother raise the family. He left school at a young age and held a variety of jobs. In 1887, he was hired as editor of the St. Peter Herald, the local newspaper. In 1899, he was elected to the State Senate, and served until 1903. In 1904, he was elected Minnesota's 16th governor. He was reelected in 1906 and 1908. He was considered as a possible candidate in the 1912 presidential election, but died as the result of an operation for intestinal adhesions in Rochester, Minnesota, on September 21, 1909. Drs. William James Mayo and Charles Horace Mayo, who came from Le Sueur and were friends with Johnson, performed the operation. After lying in state in the Capitol rotunda, his body was taken to St. Peter for burial. The funeral, held at Union Presbyterian Church, was St. Peter's largest ever, and he was buried near his parents in Greenhill Cemetery. He was survived by his wife, Elinore "Nora" Preston Johnson.
On March 29, 1998, a tornado struck St. Peter, killing six-year-old Dustin Schneider, injuring dozens more, and damaging much of the town's housing, commercial, and civic buildings. The tornado destroyed 156 single-family houses and 51 apartment units. An additional 362 houses and apartments suffered serious damage and 1,383 houses or apartments had minor damage. The town's three trailer parks were largely spared with no mobile homes destroyed and just two seriously damaged. Major losses included the Old Central School, St. Peter Arts and Heritage Center, St. Peter's Catholic Church, St. Peter Evangelical Lutheran Church, and Johnson Hall at Gustavus Adolphus College.
St. Peter is the home of Gustavus Adolphus College, a private liberal arts college affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and founded in 1862. The public high school is St. Peter High School. There are two parochial schools in St. Peter: John Ireland Catholic School (K-6), which is associated with the Church of St. Peter, and St. Peter Evangelical Lutheran School (K-8), which along with the church is associated with the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod. Veritas et Lux Preparatory School is a private non-denominational (K-12) school.
The first class graduated from St. Peter High School in 1880. The first superintendent of St. Peter Public Schools was Andrew Ryan McGill, who served from 1865 to 1868. McGill was Minnesota's 10th governor from 1887 to 1889.
Scholarship America is based in St. Peter.
Community health care is provided by St. Peter Community Hospital. In 2009 St. Peter Community Hospital was renamed River's Edge Hospital. That same year the construction of a new clinic was begun adjoining the hospital. There is now the River's Edge Clinic and the St. Peter Community Clinic, part of the Mayo Health System.
St. Peter is home to the Minnesota Security Hospital, where those the state declares mentally ill and dangerous are committed.
Benedictine Health Care Center, formerly known as St. Peter Community Health Care Center, is part of the River's Edge Hospital complex. Near the hospital Pheasants' Ridge is an assisted living facility that has a section for patients suffering from memory loss due to Alzheimer's disease and dementia. Other health care facilities in St. Peter include Grandview Good Samaritan Center on Sunrise Drive.
River Valley Birth Center opened in St. Peter in the summer of 2014. It is the region's first free-standing birth center.
City Name: | St. Peter |
Year: | 2021 |
Violent Crime: | 15 |
Homicide: | 0 |
Forcible Rape: | 6 |
Robbery: | 0 |
Aggravated Assault: | 9 |
Property Crime: | 131 |
Burglary: | 12 |
Larceny Theft: | 113 |
Motor Vehicle Theft: | 6 |
Arson: | 0 |
Source Url: | https://crime-data-explorer.app.cloud.gov/pages/explorer/crime/crime-trend |
Source Name: | FBI Crime Data Explorer 2021 |
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align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | Rapes | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 0 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 0 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 0 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 9 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 4 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 5 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 7 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 5 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 3 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 8 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 1 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 7 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 5 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 6 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 7 | |
align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | Robberies | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 1 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 3 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 1 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 2 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 0 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 2 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 3 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 2 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 0 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 1 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 2 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 2 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 2 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 0 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 1 | |
align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | Assaults | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 12 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 12 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 15 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 13 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 11 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 7 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 7 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 14 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 6 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 10 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 7 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 6 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 7 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 10 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 7 | |
align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | Burglaries | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 59 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 41 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 39 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 50 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 28 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 35 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 28 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 36 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 33 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 26 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 20 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 12 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 15 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 13 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 12 | |
align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | Thefts | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 268 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 296 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 244 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 237 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 215 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 233 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 225 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 191 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 140 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 143 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 129 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 128 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 131 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 112 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 95 | |
align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | Auto Thefts | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 9 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 13 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 10 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 2 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 5 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 12 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 2 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 10 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 6 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 6 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 8 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 9 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 7 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 3 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 3 | |
align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | Arson | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 3 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 4 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 0 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 0 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 3 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 0 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 1 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 0 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 0 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 0 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 1 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 0 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 3 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 0 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 2 | |
align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | Crime index | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 240.3 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 242.5 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 216.9 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 230.0 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 184.0 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 194.4 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 182.6 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 177.0 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 121.6 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 143.3 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 85.0 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 119.5 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 106.4 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 103.3 | align=center bgcolor=#f5f5dc | 101.2 |
The following routes are within St. Peter: